re: #20 engineer cat
the nazis relaxed restrictions on gun ownership in their revision in 1938 of the weimar republic’s gun laws
except for jews
[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]
under the nazi era laws, only handguns were subject to restrictions!
Shotguns have never been as popular in Europe as they are here and the bolt action rifles common in Germany in those days weren’t useful for crime nor were they good weapons for an insurgent unless that insurgent was a very good shot (bolt-action rifles are still useful for insurgent sharpshooters to this day).